Executive Report

Cloud Management: Where We Are Going and How to Get There, Part I -- SMAC Trends Require Core Capabilities

Posted June 1, 2015 | Leadership | Technology |

This Executive Report details seven major challenges experienced when adopting the cloud. The technology function requires new, turbo-charged core capabilities in business innovation, business savvy, governance, architecting, and specialist sourcing as an "anchor" policy for moving to the cloud. 

About The Author
Leslie Willcocks
Leslie P. Willcocks has an international reputation for his work on global management, outsourcing, e-business, information management, IT evaluation, strategic IT, and organizational change. He is a Professor of Technology Work and Globalization in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Dr. Willcocks also heads LSE's Outsourcing Unit Research Centre. For the past 25 years, he has served as… Read More
Mary Lacity
Mary C. Lacity is the Curators' Professor of Information Systems at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a Visiting Scholar at MIT CISR (Center for Information Systems Research). Dr. Lacity has also held visiting positions at the London School of Economics, Washington University, and Oxford University. She is also a Certified Outsourcing Professional, coeditor of the Palgrave Series: Work, Technology, and Globalization, and Senior Editor of … Read More
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